# Athens bank fraud report

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*John Kiriakou's account of taking a dream job as COO of an Athens investment firm in 2020, discovering it was an elaborate bank fraud, and being unable to get the FBI to act, an agent telling him that without 'terrorism, China, or January 6th,' they were not interested.*

- **Year:** 2020
- **FBI response (per Kiriakou):** "If this doesn't have terrorism, China, or January 6th, we're not interested."

The **Athens bank fraud report** is [John Kiriakou](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/john-kiriakou)'s account of a whistleblowing effort that went nowhere. In May 2020 he took what he calls a *"job from heaven"*, chief operating officer of an Athens-based investment company, only to discover, about six weeks in, that the whole thing was *"an elaborate bank fraud."* On his lawyer's advice he downloaded 15,000 to 20,000 pages of documents proving large-scale fraud and quit.[1][2] Unable to reach the FBI, told to *"call 311"*, he used a contact, a former FBI deputy director, to get a meeting at the Washington field office, where the agent put up his hands: *"if this doesn't have the words terrorism, China, or January 6th, we're not interested."*[3][4] He and his lawyer ultimately flew, at their own expense, to Athens and Israel, where the Israeli police took the case.[5]

## See also

- [National Archives declassification](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/national-archives-declassification)
- [John Kiriakou](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/john-kiriakou)

## Sources

1. John Kiriakou, CIA: "From the Inside" (Part 2) (2025-08-04), at 1:10:48. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDMtuwhkBAY&t=4248s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2025-08-04-tegan-broadwater-from-the-inside-part-2/
2. John Kiriakou, CIA: "From the Inside" (Part 2) (2025-08-04), at 1:11:20. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDMtuwhkBAY&t=4280s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2025-08-04-tegan-broadwater-from-the-inside-part-2/
3. John Kiriakou, CIA: "From the Inside" (Part 2) (2025-08-04), at 1:11:51. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDMtuwhkBAY&t=4311s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2025-08-04-tegan-broadwater-from-the-inside-part-2/
4. John Kiriakou, CIA: "From the Inside" (Part 2) (2025-08-04), at 1:12:53. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDMtuwhkBAY&t=4373s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2025-08-04-tegan-broadwater-from-the-inside-part-2/
5. John Kiriakou, CIA: "From the Inside" (Part 2) (2025-08-04), at 1:13:24. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDMtuwhkBAY&t=4404s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2025-08-04-tegan-broadwater-from-the-inside-part-2/

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